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I've seen a lot of these here and there, but never had a nice one cross my desk. Got in this one along with two waffled clad planchets. I find it interesting that this is how they ditch supposedly flawed coins and planchets. And always wonder what was the error that made them to it? This one weighs 2.69g so it's not the weight and I can't see anything obviously wrong with the details. Dunno. 2008-D New Mexico quarter - waffled   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Maybe it wasn't this coin that was defective.
Don't they toss the whole bin if they miss the problem and lots get produced. It's probably quicker to toss the whole lot than sort through them.
Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups.
We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow.
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New Member
United States
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Well that's a head scratcher for sure!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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United States
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Interesting for sure.
Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Very cool indeed!  |
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Would this be considered post 'mint' damage, seeing how it was in the mint when it got cancelled..
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I like it, I wonder if an employee at the mint took this?
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Pillar of the Community
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Would this be considered post 'mint' damage, seeing how it was in the mint when it got cancelled. I always consider any damage "Post Strike Damage". Especially this coin since it was still in the mint facility when it was waffled. Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups.
We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow.
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Pillar of the Community
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Well it's definitely damage, and intentional post strike damage at that, but since it was done by the mint these are collectable. And some TPGs will even slab them as most of the ones I've seen for sale were in holders. They aren't expensive and seem to go for less than twenty bucks RAW and up to forty in a holder.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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There are hundreds of listings for waffled coins on ebay - some with ridiculous asking prices, but most for prices as cited by tropicalbats Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Waffled coins are cool! They remind me when I was a kid, of those big hand cranked machines that would
spit out heavily altered coins at amusement parks etc..
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Bedrock of the Community
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Very cool! Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
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Three points here: 1. Basic tin planchet happened till 2010 when the new blank master line was introduce. After this year I will be surprise to see one. Here the description of the line and why could not happened: Quote:
Coil thickness monitor. The coil thickness measurement
device checks deviations from the correct coil thickness
in on-line operation. If there are tolerance deviations, the
material is advanced to a point in front of the die space, the
press is stopped in TDC and the electric roll feed moves
the out-of-tolerance coil through the open die to the
take-up coiler. 2. The line is controled by ABI-Plus system and in every 2000 coins batch strike if one was out of parameters (optical laser control) and automatic weighting system all the batch will go in recicle bin. PETE was correct. 3. Only at the recycling facility it is posible to obtain those coins. Very rare Mint to sell those coins. |
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Nice example! |
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